The @UNCTAD Statistics Service provides official statistics and other indicators, cutting across UNCTAD’s areas of work.
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Jun 12
Data on SDG 16.4.1 (illicit financial flows) are now available, covering trade misinvoicing (@UNCTAD) and crime-related IFFs (@UNODC).
This first release includes a small set of countries, marking the start of a gradual expansion.
👉Get the data: stats.unctad.org/sdg_goal16
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Jun 10
🗓️Happening now in Bangkok
The Kick-off Workshop on Better Statistics for Digital Services Trade and Gender-Responsive Trade Policies is bringing together policymakers, statisticians, researchers, and trade experts.
➡️ More about the event: unctad.org/meeting/kick-work…
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Jun 10
At the Youth Network Town Hall, co-organized by @UNCTAD , participants explored the path from recommendations to action.
Opening the event, Anu Peltola highlighted the Youth Network's important contribution to advancing the #BeyondGDP agenda.
➡️unctad.org/statistics/beyond…
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Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz have pushed up oil prices and hit vulnerable economies hard.
Some depend on the Gulf for a significant share of their energy imports and now face the added challenge of securing alternative supplies.
Read more: ow.ly/cp4i50Z9pvk
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On World Oceans Day, new @UNCTAD data show that services surpassed goods to account for over half of ocean trade ($2.5 trillion) in 2025.
How can developing economies turn this shift into greater value creation and stronger ocean conservation?
Explore: ow.ly/mMEb50Z8N3N
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From 2024 to 2025, the euro, the yen and the pound sterling appreciated against the United States dollar respectively at rates of 4%, 1% and 3%. The yuan was stable.
📊Read the insight: bit.ly/insight-298
🔢Get the data: stats.unctad.org/exchangecro…
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May 28
Globalization rebounded in 2025 as trade-to-GDP rose again.
But fragmentation is growing: Trade is concentrating in large economies, geographically closer trade links are growing faster, and geopolitics continue to reshape flows.
Explore: ow.ly/YpxE50Z4WlY
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May 27
The age structure in developing economies is pyramid-shaped. By contrast, in developed economies, the largest age groups are 35 to 69 years old.
🔢 Get the data: stats.unctad.org/population
📊 Read the insights: bit.ly/insight-123
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May 27
Globally, the population is growing, but populations was projected to fall in 64 economies in 2025. Since the late 1980s, the pace of population growth has gradually slowed.
📊 Read the insights: bit.ly/insight-123
🔢 Get the data: stats.unctad.org/population
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May 27
On 27–28 May, @UNCTAD participates in the @UNEP & @NordicCouncil workshop on the Global Plastics Hub in Oslo, contributing to discussions on trade data challenges and opportunities.
📊Read the insights: bit.ly/insight-117
🔢Get the data: stats.unctad.org/plastics
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May 22
Business e-commerce sales have grown rapidly. This trend accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic slightly slowed down in 2024, but sales in 2024 were still 4.4% higher than in 2023.
📊Read the insight: bit.ly/insight-265
🔢Get the data: stats.unctad.org/e-commercet…
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May 17
“Let’s count what matters. Let’s embrace these new metrics that complement GDP, and reveal the full picture of the challenges and opportunities our world faces at this extraordinary moment in history.” – @UN Secretary-General António Guterres
Full report: ow.ly/E4M250Z0fy9
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May 18
Over the last quarter-century, the role of developing economies in international seaborne trade has increased, they have become destinations for heavy goods traded and transported by sea.
📊Read the insight: bit.ly/insight-244
🔢Get the data: bit.ly/data-SeaborneTrade
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May 16
GDP has long been the world’s scoreboard for progress. Yet growth can still leave gaps in security, trust, opportunity & hope.
Complementing GDP, a new @UN framework proposes a broader dashboard to capture well-being, equity, sustainability & resilience.
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May 14
South-South cooperation isn’t just financial. While scholarships are mostly monetary, much support – training, aid, technical expertise – is non-monetized.
More insights from the project on quantifying South–South cooperation for the #SDGs: ow.ly/b6Jm50YZt3Z
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May 11
Developed economies dominate exports of digitally deliverable services, while many least developed countries remain on the margins.
Closing this gap requires targeted policy action as services increasingly drive value creation.
More: ow.ly/Awvy50YX1aS
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May 11
The UNCTAD Commodity Price Index #UCPI was 30.6% higher in March 2026 than one year earlier.
Prices of #fuels saw a sudden increase and were 29.3% higher in March than the year before.
📊Read the insight: bit.ly/insight-242
🔢Get the data: stats.unctad.org/UCPI_M
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GDP alone doesn’t show if people are living well, if growth is harming the planet, or if opportunity is shared.
The @UN’s new report calls for measuring progress beyond GDP with broader indicators of well-being and sustainability.
Explore: ow.ly/TW5u50YWyNU
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GDP isn’t the full scoreboard for tracking progress.
The @UN now proposes 31 indicators beyond economic output – well-being, equity, resilience and more.
“What we measure shapes what we value,” says @UNCTAD Acting Secretary-General Pedro Manuel Moreno.
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GDP is the most widely used metric of economic progress & well-being. But it cannot be the only one.
GDP is indifferent to whether income goes to billionaires or to the poor – or if that income goes to addressing hunger, health or deprivation.
Let’s count what matters: Health. Biodiversity. Job-creation. Human rights. Equality.
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